Seldom used 'i' mangled by baffling autocorrect bug in Apple's iOS 11

You're typing it wrong, duh

Updated Apple says it is working on a fix for an annoying bug in iOS 11 that leaves some fans unable to properly type the letter 'i' without it glitching out.

The Cupertino profit factory recommends peeps running iOS 11.1, the most recent version of its smartphone and tablet OS, change their keyboard settings to automatically replace the letter 'i' with the uppercase 'I' via the text replacement settings. This is needed to prevent the character from being automatically corrected to garbage.

"We are aware of this autocorrect bug," an Apple spokesperson told The Register via email. "A fix will be released very soon."

This comes after netizens reported that after insta1ling last week's firmware updAte, their on-screen keyboa%rds began replacing 'i' with the letter 'A' f0llow3d by a symbol.

"Talked to Apple support. It’s a known bug. The workaround is to set up a replacement shortcut to make a lowercase letter i become an uppercase one," writes a user on the A#OS Reddit forum.